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Conceptual Model of BDI Agents within an ITS

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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the conceptual modelling of Belief, Desire and Intention (BDI) Agents within an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS). A two stage modelling process is presented during which a combination of existing modelling techniques are employed. Initially an overall analysis and functional decomposition of the complex ITS is performed using recognized modelling procedures from the area of object oriented software engineering. Finally, the BDI agents’ state (belief, desire, intention, goals and plans) are modelled using techniques particular to the area of agent oriented software engineering. Epistemic and modal logic are employed as a modelling language. Specific attention is paid to the modelling and observations of social interactions among Intelligent Agents (IA) in the ITS.

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  1. University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4

    Frances Mowlds & Bernard Joseph Roche

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  1. Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, (Renmin University of China), MOE, 100872, Beijing, P.R. China

    Shan Wang

  2. University of Kyoto, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, 200433, China

    Shuigeng Zhou

  4. School of Computing, National University of Singapore,  

    Tok-Wang Ling

  5. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, 201804, China

    Jihong Guan

  6. Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, China, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China

    Dong-qing Yang

  7. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy

    Fabio Grandi

  8. School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublinq, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Eleni E. Mangina

  9. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  10. Institute for Applied Informatics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

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Mowlds, F., Roche, B.J. (2004). Conceptual Model of BDI Agents within an ITS. In: Wang, S., et al. Conceptual Modeling for Advanced Application Domains. ER 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30466-1_46

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